Background Briefing

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March 10, 2019 Inside Australia's segregated hotel rooms
In this episode, we investigate allegations that staff at a popular Alice Springs hotel managed by Australia’s largest hotel group, Accor, have been segregating Aboriginal guests into inferior rooms.
Undercover recordings and a whistleblower account reveal Aboriginal guests being charged $129 for a room with dirty sheets on the bed, and chicken bones and broken glass on the floor.
Reporter Oliver Gordon meets the people falling through the cracks of a flawed complaints system.
43 min
March 09, 2019 Inside Australia's segregated hotel rooms
In this episode, we investigate allegations that staff at a popular Alice Springs hotel managed by Australia’s largest hotel group, Accor, have been segregating Aboriginal guests into inferior rooms.
Undercover recordings and a whistleblower account reveal Aboriginal guests being charged $129 for a room with dirty sheets on the bed, and chicken bones and broken glass on the floor.
Reporter Oliver Gordon meets the people falling through the cracks of a flawed complaints system.
43 min
February 23, 2019 Doxxed: Exposing the terrifying new frontier in online abuse
You've heard of online trolls, but what happens when they share your private data, like your contact details, with malicious intent? ABC Life’s Osman Faruqi found out the hard way.
Last August, a far-right activist posted his phone number on social media. Osman was inundated with racist text messages and phone calls that continue to this day.
In this episode, which is a co-production with ABC Life, Osman confronts the man responsible. And with the help of reporter Alex Mann, he investigates why law enforcement is seemingly powerless to protect victims.
53 min
February 23, 2019 Doxxed: Exposing the terrifying new frontier in online abuse
You've heard of online trolls, but what happens when they share your private data, like your contact details, with malicious intent? ABC Life’s Osman Faruqi found out the hard way.
Last August, a far-right activist posted his phone number on social media. Osman was inundated with racist text messages and phone calls that continue to this day.
In this episode, which is a co-production with ABC Life, Osman confronts the man responsible. And with the help of reporter Alex Mann, he investigates why law enforcement is seemingly powerless to protect victims.
53 min
February 23, 2019 Doxxed: Exposing the terrifying new frontier in online abuse
You've heard of online trolls, but what happens when they share your private data, like your contact details, with malicious intent? ABC Life’s Osman Faruqi found out the hard way.
Last August, a far-right activist posted his phone number on social media. Osman was inundated with racist text messages and phone calls that continue to this day.
In this episode, which is a co-production with ABC Life, Osman confronts the man responsible. And with the help of reporter Alex Mann, he investigates why law enforcement is seemingly powerless to protect victims.
53 min
February 16, 2019 What if your day in court lasted just five minutes?
"Bush Court" is based on a simple premise. If you live in a remote Australia, you won't be forced to travel to the city to seek justice. Instead, justice will come to you.
It's kind of like a judicial roadshow with a judge, prosecutor, and defence team touring 30 Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory each year.
Unfortunately, despite having dozens of matters to resolve, they don't stay longer than a day or two.
But does the fast food of justice deliver the best outcomes? Allan Clarke investigates.
48 min
February 16, 2019 What if your day in court lasted just five minutes?
"Bush Court" is based on a simple premise. If you live in a remote Australia, you won't be forced to travel to the city to seek justice. Instead, justice will come to you.
It's kind of like a judicial roadshow with a judge, prosecutor, and defence team touring 30 Indigenous communities across the Northern Territory each year.
Unfortunately, despite having dozens of matters to resolve, they don't stay longer than a day or two.
But does the fast food of justice deliver the best outcomes? Allan Clarke investigates.
48 min
February 09, 2019 Murder on trial: Was a Melbourne woman’s conviction beyond reasonable doubt?
In 2011, Boronika Hothnyang was accused of fatally stabbing her best friend, William Awu, directly in the heart.
But when police arrived at the scene of the crime, Boronika's apartment in Dandenong south-east of Melbourne, she was fast asleep.
Six men who had earlier been drinking at her place each gave detectives a very different version of events.
In this episode, Sarah Dingle uncovers new evidence that raises serious questions about the strength of the case against Boronika.
41 min
February 09, 2019 Murder on trial: Was a Melbourne woman’s conviction beyond reasonable doubt?
In 2011, Boronika Hothnyang was accused of fatally stabbing her best friend, William Awu, directly in the heart.
But when police arrived at the scene of the crime, Boronika's apartment in Dandenong south-east of Melbourne, she was fast asleep.
Six men who had earlier been drinking at her place each gave detectives a very different version of events.
In this episode, Sarah Dingle uncovers new evidence that raises serious questions about the strength of the case against Boronika.
41 min
February 02, 2019 Gridlock: Australia’s electricity system buckles as politicians stall on energy policy
Australia's national electricity grid has once again buckled under the pressure of a scorching hot summer. Consumers are furious not only about blackouts but rising power bills, too.
For decades, politicians have promised solutions they failed to deliver. Reporter Mario Christodoulou investigates the toxic politics of energy.
47 min

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Background Briefing is the ABC's flagship investigative journalism podcast. Its award-winning investigations and documentaries expose cover-ups, corruption, real-life mysteries, whistleblowing, crime, fraud and miscarriages of justice — often before these stories receive mainstream attention.